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Bluesky starts letting users host their own servers

But the training wheels still aren’t quite off yet.

Bluesky does warn in its developer’s instructions not to be surprised if things are slow or just outright break, and it recommends against self-hosting for most users, at least on their main accounts. Earlier this month, Bluesky finally tossed its invite-only system, opening up the network to expand well beyond the 3 million signups since its launch in 2023. CEO Jay Graber told The Verge that the plan is to hand over control of the AT protoco l to a web standards body like the Internet Engineering Task Force.

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